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After a bad trip in the Preakness, Cape Town has become the latest high-profile 3-year-old on the disabled list. He lost a shoe, rapped his left-front ankle and finished last in the field of 10 after being sent off as the 2.90-1 third choice. Trainer Wayne Lukas discovered a swollen sesamoid. "It doesn't look career-threatening, but he is going to need some time off," Lukas said. "The lost shoe probably was why he rapped the ankle, and it explains why (jockey) Jerry Bailey said he wasn't traveling smoothly."

In its bid to host the 2004 Olympics Games, this city is promoting more than the beautiful setting of Table Mountain, the Cape of Good Hope and the Stellenbosch vineyards. This Olympic bid, officials contend, is an effort to save the Games themselves. "Africa deserves a chance to host the Olympic Games in a unique African way," said President Nelson Mandela, kicking off South Africa's campaign. That way would be a back-to-basics approach, a smaller Olympics that would place the Games in countries that need development rather than those that already have the capacity to handle them.

Organized group tours come in all types of styles to all kinds of places at all sorts of prices. For this series, Tribune staffers have traveled with seniors, middle-agers and young adults as we rumbled through Britain, rolled down to Branson and rocked along the Eastern Seaboard--all on budget or mid-priced tours. Somebody had to do an upscale tour to someplace exotic. Might as well be me. The company chosen: Tauck World Discovery, one of the leading high-end tour companies in the world.

British tabloid newspapers, pilloried by Charles Spencer at the funeral of his sister, Princess Diana, are getting their revenge this week with comprehensive coverage of the earl's divorce proceedings in South Africa. These headlines were emblazoned Wednesday across front pages of newspapers the earl had accused of hounding Diana to her death: "Cheating Spencer's Letter to His Lover." "Spencer's Cruel Taunt." "He Proposed to Me then Dumped Me." "Revealed in Full: the Earl's Astonishing Love Letter to his Mistress about his Wife."

An ostrich kicked a 63-year-old woman to death on a farm outside Cape Town, South Africa, and seriously injured her husband, police said. Abraham Hendriks, 65, incapacitated from his injuries, watched helplessly while his wife, Ouma, was kicked and stomped on for an hour on an ostrich farm in Joostenbergvlakte, about 25 miles from Cape Town. "Ouma was seriously injured and I was almost helpless," Hendriks was quoted as saying in Monday's edition of the Johnannesburg paper The Star.

CAPE TOWN, Jan 2 (Reuters) - New Zealand were bowled out for 45 runs in their first innings before lunch on the opening day of their first test against South Africa on Wednesday. Scores: New Zealand 45 all out (V. Philander 5-7, M. Morkel 3-14) v South Africa. (Reporting by Michael Todt in Cape Town; editing by Amlan Chakraborty)

Delta Airlines and South Africa Airways are forming a code-share agreement to offer non-stop service to South Africa from New York and Atlanta. Starting Monday, the airlines will fly from Atlanta to Johannesburg and Cape Town, and from Kennedy International Airport to Johannesburg. Flights will leave Kennedy daily at 5:55 p.m., arriving in Johannesburg at 3:30 p.m. the following day, except on Tuesdays, when the plane drops off cargo on Sal Island, Cape Verde, and arrives at 5 p.m. Flights depart Johannesburg at 9:20 p.m. and arrive at Kennedy at 7:20 a.m. the next day. From Atlanta, departures on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday will be at 10:30 a.m., arriving in Johannesburg at 8:35 a.m. the next day, and continuing to Cape Town, arriving at 11:35 a.m. On the other days, flights go to Cape Town first, then to Johannesburg.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa declared their first innings on 347 for eight wickets, a lead of 302, shortly after lunch on day two of the first test against New Zealand in Cape Town on Thursday. Scores: New Zealand 45 all out from 19.2 overs (V. Philander 5-7, M. Morkel 3-14); South Africa 347 for eight declared (A. Petersen 106, AB de Villiers 67, H. Amla 66, J. Kallis 60) (Editing by Tom Pilcher)